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• How To: Stop Being a Slave to Your Email

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Advice, Email, Email Overload, Gtd, How To, Interruption Management

  feel buried under their email, but time management experts say there are ways to avoid feeling swamped. Getting Things Done author David Allen tells the Wall Street Journal you should take immediate action on any messages that require two minutes of your time or less. Other advice includes disabling new email alerts that interrupt your

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• Email: Companies Limit Email Use to Boost Productivity

  Published: August 28, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Email, Email Overload, Office Culture, Productivity

  company has instituted a no-email rule every Friday (except customer email): Tired of "cyber indigestion," U.S. Cellular Vice President Jay Ellison instituted the policy company-wide last year in an effort to curb out-of-control emailing and encourage face-to-face or at least voice-to-voice communication. [Director of sales Jodi] Valenta notes

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• Avoid Getting Bogged Down by Long Emails [Email]

  Published: January 16, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Email, Email Overload, Speed Reading

  defined, rather than the email as a whole.You should, of course, also look to see who the email is from, but the "single sentence" rule is something I've been doing mentally ever since I received my first corporate email account. How do you distill long emails down to quick-response messages? Share your tips in the comments. How to Meet and

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• Conquer Email Backlog with Inbox 0.5 [Email Overload]

  Published: March 5, 2008, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Email, Email Apps, Email Overload, Inbox Zero, Top

  he calls the "Email DMZ"—involves skipping the old mail processing temporarily and moving all your backlog into a DMZ folder right away. The advantage there is that you get the beautiful empty inbox feeling immediately—and the motivation to keep it empty—but many users are afraid they'll move something crucial

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• Seriosity Email Currency To Curb Overload?

  Published: June 18, 2008, 12:50 am

  Tags: Awayfind, Business, Email, Innovation, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Strategy, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Trends, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Attent, Currency, Email, Email Overload, Enterprise, Hack, Idea, Information Overload, New Idea, Productivity

  to create a marketplace for email. Like any marketplace there is a currency and each email costs users currency. Since users do not have unlimited currency they must ration currency which Seriosity believes will cut down on unnecessary email exchanges thus combating the email overload issue. Will currency help curb excessive email? My

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• Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? [Ask The Readers]

  Published: June 30, 2008, 10:07 am

  Tags: Ask The Readers, Blogs, Email, Email Overload, Instant Messaging, Instant Messenger, Productivity, Social, Social Networking, Wiki

  cut down his weekly incoming email by 80 percent—seriously—by responding to messages that would normally start a chain reaction through wikis, blogs, and instant messaging instead. He also started picking up the phone more often to add a personal touch when needed:I have had continuing support from my management in this effort,

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• What Productivity Studies Really Show [Opinion]

  Published: July 23, 2008, 7:00 am

  Tags: Opinion, Email Overload, Information Overload, Top

  studies have shown that email kills concentration more than smoking pot does, that you've got 11 minutes before the next interruption, that dual monitors increase productivity, that no one understands the intended tone of your email, that email overload costs the American economy more than $700 billion a year, and that multitasking kills

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• Merlin Mann on Why You Should Delete Dead Mail [Email Overload]

  Published: July 24, 2008, 10:05 am

  Tags: Email Overload, Archiving, Email, Inbox, Inboxes, Productivity

  updates to his talk about email-wrangling, including a bit of advanced common sense about why stashing away your emails isn't productive. Acting on them, and then killing 'em off, Mann says, is where you want to be: The idea here is that you probably don't have a place in your home or office where you store the shells from every peanut you

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